Photorealism
- Kennedy Motorcade
- Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
- Farb Family Portrait
- Macarena of Miracles
- Crayola
- Self-Portrait
- Buddha
- World War II
- Marilyn
- We Are All Light and Energy
Sisters of the Immaculate Conception Marching for Freedom.
1965.
Oil on canvas, 38x70" - New York University
| Sisters of the Immaculate Conception moved to included important
women as the subjects of her work, which would lead to works of Marilyn
Monroe and numerous goddess paintings and scultpures. This was patined
from a news photograph, and Flack was one of the few artists in the 1960's
to paint politically and socially minded works such as this (Gouma-Peterson
55-56).
This painting depicts an incident of the Civil Rights Movement in which nuns led and tried to protect black protesters by walking with them in a freedom march. It is a frontal work, a style that implies the unstoppable advance of the crowd. They look about to burst out of the painting. Flack uses a wide range of shadows, blakcs and whites in Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, leading her to greater use of color in future works (Flack 22). It seems apparent to me that Flack had a lot of respect for these religiously devout women devoted to social change. The workdepicts determined emotion - there is still fear on the women’s faces, but they are pushing onward. |